On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, seth vidal wrote:
- Do we really want users to download all the src.rpm data each time? Most
users don't do anything with that information so it sucks up bandwidth for no purpose. Maybe the src.rpm file information should be separated to different files?
the src rpms stuff are more of a <Shrug>. I got a bunch of complaints about yum's src.rpm header.info file being separate from the primary header.info so I figured that might help resolve it.
Dunno, nobody ever complained apt having separate files for binary and source indexes :) Not that I personally care about it either, I've enough plenty enough bandwidth and would download the src.rpm stuff anyway. Just a bit of wasted bandwidth for everybody to download those but no big deal.
- Any particular reason for using gzip instead of bzip2? The difference
can be huge, especially for other.xml:
Yah - bzip2 isn't everywhere - gzip is. Specifically bzip2 isn't in python 2.2 - you need an external module that's not in fedora core 1.
Ok, I thought it might have to do with that. OTOH there's a bz2 python module in python 2.3 which is in FC2, which I think is the "target" for this stuff anyway.
- Panu -